You are good and kind, and I do not blame you for my misfortunes.

If you knew all, you would pity me.' "And that was all she would say.
"She was a pretty girl, about the same age and height as the Princess, and the Princess, after speaking to her, remembered that she had sometimes seen her before.
"'You are the daughter of the gardener, are you not ?' she inquired.
"'Yes,' said the girl.

'My father is the king's gardener.

But I have been away with my grandmother.

They only sent for me yesterday to come home--and--and--oh, I was to have been married next week to a young shepherd, who has loved me since my childhood!' "And with this the girl burst into fresh weeping, but not another word would she say.
"Just then the Princess's governess, who had been a little behind--for sometimes in playing with her balls the Princess ran on faster--came up to where the two young girls were talking together.